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THE 

PERFECT VISION 

BY LILLIAN fSfcJk****) 
DE WATERS 

Author of 

The Hidden Truth 

How To Have Health 

etc. 



Published and for sale by 
LILLIAN DE WATERS 

118 Forest Street, Stamford, Conn, 






copyright, 1920 
Lillian De Waters 

All rights reserved 



JAN 26 1921 



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The Perfect Vision 






How many of us take life too seriously? 
How many of us are too indifferent? too 
lazy? too careless? too busy? too 
troubled to appreciate life? 

How many of us have inspiration so 
acutely that we are constantly recognizing 
grandeur, wonderment, glory, beauty, har- 
mony, as being manifested everywhere, 
from the tiny seedling to the giant oak; 
from the grain of sand to the majestic sun; 
from the little rivulet to the mighty ocean; 
from the infinitesimal to infinity? Many 
of us need to bestir our mentalities into 
an attitude or a state of recognition of love, 
enthusiasm, praise, joy. Begin today to 
wonder, to ponder, to exclaim, to enthuse, 
to glorify Mind and its wonderful power 
of thought. 

Cultivate a feeling of joy, delight, ap- 
preciation for the power and ability to 
have* to know, to understand the wonders 



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and .glories of Life. Have you affection 
and tenderness toward everything and 
everybody, or is there a cold indifference, 
a reserve, a depressed attitude, a mind 
so small or asleep that it sees nothing over 
which to enthuse, nothing to praise, knows 
no true thought to think, but exists upon 
its own fears, doubts, and worries? 

Don't be afraid to count your blessings, 
to rejoice or to make merry. Don't be 
afraid to laugh and be happy. Life is 
enjoyment. Fill every thought with joy 
and realize that you are an inseparable 
part of this wonderful Nature and Being. 
Praise Life and its manifestations. Praise 
Mind and its creative force. Praise the 
sun that shines its light and warmth upon 
you; praise the breeze that wafts its won- 
derful touch of invisible being upon you; 
praise the hills and valleys, the grass and 
the forests. • 

Is there room for you to sweeten the 
disposition? Take out all sense of anger 



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or hatred. This is a poison that will harm 
your body and deprive it of its normal 
manifestations and functions of health and 
activity. If you love the whole world 
except one individual toward whom you 
have hate or ill will, you have broken the 
Law and will reap the punishment that 
hate brings. One drop of ink will color a 
glass of water, so one drop of hate or anger 
or resentment in your mentality will con- 
taminate the whole sense of your mentality. 
Be careful, then, not to hate at all. 

It is ignorance, wrong education that is 
at the bottom of all of our troubles. Do 
you really want understanding? Do you 
really want to know how to think better 
thoughts, and what right thoughts to 
think? how to do better, act better, fefcl 
better? If not, then there is no need 
for you to read further in this book, for 
my whole object is to bring you into 
mental touch with right and true thinking, 
understanding. 



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Instead of reasoning from the basis that 
you are a mental being, you probably have 
been taught that you are a weak human 
being; that you can be sick, miserable, 
sinful, and ultimately die; that you are a 
mixture of good and evil, of spirit and 
matter; that you neither know why you 
came nor whither you go. Many of us have 
been trained to think of the body first; 
trained to believe that it is the body that 
is sick, and that it is the body that must 
be made well. What nonsense is this. 
As well try to correct the image in the 
mirror paying no attention to the original 
outside that is casting that image, as to 
try and correct the body paying no atten- 
tion to the thought convictions in the 
individual mentality that are causing that 
condition called sickness. 

You say, But I have stomach trouble, 
consumption, rheumatism, how can I get 
rid of it? First of all be rational. Listen 
to reason. Stop and think who you are. 



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Are you not a conscious, intelligent being? 
Is not your very life God, Itself? Can 
God, perfect Life be sick, have stomach 
trouble, consumption? Then, how can 
you, who are Life individualized have 
these conditions? Do not spend your time 
arguing out that you have them, and how 
you got them but try and reason out how 
impossible it would be for that which is 
Life or God to be sick. 

Dear Seeker, the truth is that sickness 
is not a fact of Life. If you sat in the coach 
of a train that was standing still and 
watched from the window a train that was 
moving past, you would be very apt to 
believe that it was your train that was 
moving, for your sense of motion would be 
very real and true to you, and it might be 
necessary for you to look from another 
window upon objects that were standing 
still to your sense of things to be actually 
convinced that your train was not in motion 
at all. So you, in your ignorance of perfect 



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Life and Mind mav state that vou are 
sick, but sickness is not the truth of existence 
anymore than was the belief that you 
were in motion when actually vou were 
standing still. Sickness has an appearance 
of realitv to the self-deceived mentality, 
but this appearance is of the same nature 
as any lie, and this will become plain to 
you as you gain some actual understanding 
of Life and self. 

The very power, the ability you have to 
think, to live, to feel, to do, to speak, to 
hear, is God, Itself. You are not separate 
from God. You are not something that 
God made and then set aside. The life 
of the tiny seed, the life of the largest 
animal, the life of the grass at your feet, 
the life of the bird and flower, and your 
life is God. There is but one God and hence 
but one Life which is infinite in individuality 
from a grain of seed to an individual man 
or woman. When you claim that you are 
sick, you are virtually claiming that God, 



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the One-Life is sick, for your life, mind, 
soul, consciousness, being is God. God 
and true understanding are the same and 
hence is the Life of all. There is but one 
Father, and this Father of us all is Life, Itself. 
All the ills of life are the results or the 
outcome of wrong education, wrong teach- 
ings about Life; mental misconceptions. 
Your understanding of Life being wrong 
this may be the direct result of your trouble 
or of your suffering. The one and only 
way to overcome what is called sickness, 
disease, poverty, fear, etc., is to acquire an 
understanding of Being and to rely solely 
upon this understanding. This under- 
standing is the only thing that you can 
take from this plane to what is called the 
next plane. Nothing goes with you from 
this world except what you understand 
of Life; so awake' today to the supreme 
importance that you gain a reasonable and 
demonstrable understanding of Being. All 
there is to you is your individual con- 



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sciousness, your thought convictions (your 
understanding), and their manifestations. 
Your individual mentality will manifest in 
its body whatever this mentality is think- 
ing and feeling as mental convictions. 
Thinking is the subjective state of the 
mentality. Body is the objective state of 
the mentality. All objectifications of right 
and true thoughts are real because they 
are founded upon Fact and Truth. Con- 
trariwise, all objectifications of erring 
thoughts are unreal because untrue, having 
no right foundation. As you remove from 
your mentality the erring thought that 
you are believing and substitute in its 
place the right and true thought about 
Life and self, this will result in the discord 
being removed from the mentality, and it 
will no more be found in the body but the 
natural condition of harmony will be ex- 
perienced by you. 

Now, you must be willing to accept and 
strive to understand as true these facts of 



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Life: that there is but the one Life, God, 
which is infinite, perfect and good; that 
mental Nature, Life, is one and all; that 
Mind is God and that right thought is the 
"Son of God" or Mind and is the all-power 
or mental force of God; that the good, 
alone, is all there is to Life, It is this 
understanding of Life, lived, that is heaven; 
and it is a lack of this understanding or 
ignorance of Life and thinking in con- 
formity with this error that is hell. You 
must become an understander of Life. 
You simply cannot win harmony or gain 
permanent peace upon any other basis. 
You possess through your very nature 
the ability to reason and to think, to act 
and to feel, and to gain an understanding 
of Life for yourself. 

Try to comprehend clearly that there is 
nothing to be healed in the body, but that 
it is the mentality or thinking that needs 
correction. Healing is a mental process, 



10 THE'PERFECT VISION 

the process of knowing the truth about 
God, life, self. The mental state must be 
changed before the bodily state can change. 
The science of true healing is performed 
through a purely mental method, the appli- 
cation of right thought or Truth. Evil, 
sin, sickness and death are not so many 
powers but are delusions in the mentality, 
delusions or wrong beliefs about God, life 
and nearly everything under the sun. Just 
become thrilled with the awakening that 
your own individual mentality is the exact 
nature and character of the infinite or 
whole Mind, its inheritance so rich, so 
unlimited, so full of substance and infinite 
wisdom that the very recognition of this 
Truth will set you free to master that 
delusion that confronts you. The body 
can make no condition for itself. The 
mentality alone is responsible for all action, 
feeling, and form. The mentality alone is 
what sees, hears, feels, acts, understands, 
loves. The body is neither cause nor 



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creator nor is Mind dependent upon bodily 
conditions. All things that you have con- 
sidered God could do, perfect Mind, right 
thinking can and will do for you. Any one 
who thinks figures must have the right sense 
of them and obey the law governing num- 
bers in order to get the correct result, so, 
any one who thinks life must have the right 
sense of Life and obey the laws of Life in 
order to experience the result of Life, which 
is harmony. 

Don't look upon the evidence or result 
of wrong thinking called a sick or diseased 
body and then try to change or correct 
that body. You might as well try to dry 
up the water that is flowing from an open 
faucet. Close the faucet, and there will be 
no water to flood the lioi^W It is your 
wrong thinking, belief, and reeling that is 
causing the body to show forth this ap- 
pearance of disorder, and this is in accord 
with the metaphysical law of Life, for as a 
man thinketh and believeth in his mind 



12 THE PERFECT VISION 

so does he show forth in his body. You 
draw your thoughts upon a canvas and 
exhibit that as a picture. It is merely the 
manifested outline of the thought picture 
you first had in mind. So, your body is 
the visible showing forth of your invisible 
thoughts. The seat of the trouble therefore, 
my friend, is not in the body which is the 
effect, but is in your mind which is the 
cause. When the mentality through under- 
standing thinks right and true thoughts 
and ceases to think ignorant and wrong 
thoughts, then will the discord that appears 
in your body and in your environment 
disappear. 

You may have heard about the rubber 
ball that is put out of its natural shape by 
means of a jK> o? There is nothing the 
matter with the rubber ball though it 
appears all twisted and out of shape, for, 
remove the clamp, and, lo, there is the ball 
all perfect as it was all the time. So, 
remove your wrong thinking, acting, and 



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feeling (the clamp), and you will find that 
your body is all right. 

You know that if you saw a blackboard 
as large as is the surface of the earth and 
on every point and all over it was written 
6 and 3 are 7 it would not disturb you nor 
deceive you, would it? Now if you can 
understand that you, the real you, are an 
indivisible part of the whole mental ele- 
ment or Mind as a drop of water is part 
of the whole ocean and that it is natural 
and right that you express perfect Life 
and Being, you would not be disturbed 
by the appearance of discord anymore 
than by the statement made by another 
that 6 and 3 are 7. 

Many of us fall into the habit of taking 
joys and pleasures and all the exquisite 
loveliness of the growing things about us 
for granted. We hear the robins warble and 
sing and enthuse and exclaim at the peep of 
day, and probably the "noise" disturbs us. 



14 THE PERFECT VISION 

A day in spring or early summer when 
the atmosphere is filled with the fragrance 
of blossoms, nodding daisies, sweetest clover, 
new mown hay; and the fresh balmy breeze 
is deliciously scented with this aroma which 
seems to penetrate over the hills and 
meadows, across the valleys and into the 
door yards of rich and poor alike, we meet 
one who looks as though he held the 
troubles of the world upon his shoulders. 
His face is long and sad, his eyes red and 
watery, he sneezes and uses his handker- 
chief alternately until finally he declares 
that it is all this loveliness, this wonderful 
demonstration of life and love, this mani- 
festation of sweetness and fragrance that 
brings "hay fever," makes him sick and 
miserable. 

Next we meet a man walking along with 
his little son. We notice before we reach 
him that he stops, and taking a small box 
from his pocket, he puts a lighted match 
to something in the box and then he holds 



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it up so that the boy may inhale the fumes 
of the burning substance. Now, what is 
there of more exquisite fragrance to inhale 
than the breath of the day, we wonder, 
and as we meet him we ask him this ques- 
tion. "Oh," he remarks, "Son has the 
asthma and is so bad today that he can 
scarcely breathe without inhaling some of 
this," touching the small box, "this gives 
him some relief." We ask, "But where did 
he get the asthma?" knowing that asthma 
is not included in infinite Good. "Why I 
have it, and so of course, he has it. It is 
just nature you know for the boy to have 
it, isn't it, Son? Daddy has it and so you 
have it." Oh the trust and yielding sim- 
plicity of the child's mind, as, looking 
loyally into his father's face he answers, 
"Yes, Daddy." 

Fathers, Mothers awake! cease contam- 
inating the pure sense of your children by 
such wicked blasphemies against God, 
Nature. It is bad enough for you to believe 



16 THE PERFECT VISION 

that you can be sick and have disease, 
but for you to believe that this wrong con- 
dition can be handed down by Nature to 
a pure, helpless, innocent child is ignorant 
and wicked. 

What kind of a Nature or God could 
there be that would cause disease to be 
transmitted from one to another and even 
to the innocent child? 

Is there any asthma in perfect Life? 
Does Nature, God contain such conditions 
called hay fever, asthma, nerves, con- 
sumption, and deal these out to this one 
and that one with even the including 
clause, that what is given to the father will 
be handed dow^n to his child? A thousand 
times no, — None of these thoughts or con- 
ditions are in or of Nature, or Life. Your 
ow^n wrong beliefs about Nature and Life 
is what causes you to bring forth these 
wrong conditions. Is it your understand- 
ing of numbers that causes you to put 
down the wrong answers to your problems? 



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No, It is your ignorance of numbers that 
causes you to make these mistakes. So 
it is your ignorance of Life that causes 
you to experience mistakes called sickness, 
disease. These conditions are not in Life 
any more than mistakes are in mathematics. 
Think of Nature as a mental Substance, 
being infinitely good, pure, perfect, har- 
monious, lovely, then know that this 
Nature became more of the same Nature 
when you became you. This is your real 
and true Nature. If you knew this well 
enough would you have nerves, hay fever, 
consumption? No more than if you know 
2 and 2 are 4 will you call them 5. The 
great trouble is that many do not pause 
long enough to think, to reason, but blindly 
accept the ignorant teachings of their 
ancestors and submit without a spark of 
reasoning to ignorant beliefs. 

We continue our walk this bright morn- 
ing basking in the delight of Soul, and we 
notice the approach of two ladies. One is 



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a nurse, we see by her attire, and she is 



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able to move one foot before the other. 

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"•Oh:" says the seeming invalid- "It's the 

air. this climate. The Doctors say I must 

."way. out V\ est : consumptives are 

better ou: there. you know." 

We ask. "Do you expect to find more 
God there, more Lite? Is Nature uictereut 
there from here' I- there another ktw- 
govermiug being in Colorado r" Such : 
ishuess. Strut nonsense. Can we get more 
harmony from music in Colorado than 
here? is the science of numbers ditferenf 
there? are the sun. moon, stars, light 
dmerent tuere? 

But. vou saw I know -hose who h 
suffered from what is called consumption 
and have teen cured by living for a time 
in that climate. What did it ; This. The 
individual's own thinking did it ah — every 
bit of it. How? very simple. He was 



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told by those whose opinion he valued, 
that the air here is too dry or too damp 
or too this or too that, while out in Colorado 
or somewhere else, it is healthier, purer, 
and will undoubtedly effect a cure. The 
patient accepts this theory; he believes it. 
He wilts more here day by day "because 
of the air" when the fact is the air he is 
breathing is the same air that his neighbor 
is breathing, and his neighbor is perfectly 
healthy and well. 

So the lady of whom we speak, walks 
despairingly down the street or sits on the 
porch bundled up in blankets and thinks 
there is nothing for which to live; recalls 
all the sad places in her past and broods 
over them; breathes the dry air or damp 
air believing it is hurting her; and, is it 
any wonder she "droops" and fails? She 
is serving every other god that could be 
thought of except this one perfect God, 
right thinking. She is ignorant of the fact 
that her own thoughts govern her body — 



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not the air. or sun, or earth, or sky, but 
her own thoughts. Thinking she has con- 
sumption as though it were something of 
real nature to have, she manifests this 
condition in her bodv. The mind and 
body are not separate but are one as cause 
and effect. The body is merely the thought 
in the objective. As long as she thinks 
she has consumption and the air makes 
her sick and she is too weak to walk, she 
will show forth these conditions in the body. 
If her body manifested abundant life and 
strength while her mentality was enter- 
taining these ignorant, wicked thoughts 
then intelligence would not be the ruling 
power and we all would be in a sorry plight. 
It would be as impossible as for an indi- 
vidual totally ignorant of music to sit down 
at a piano, strike whatever keys his fingers 
fell upon and thereby produce harmony 
in music. 

There is a fixed metaphysical law, an 
unalterable, unchangeable, indestructible 



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law governing Life in all its activities. 
This Law says as a man thinketh and feeleth 
as a mental conviction so does he reap in 
the visible body. To think and believe 
hay fever, asthma, consumption, bad air 
in the mind, is sooner or later to exhibit 
these very ills in the body, and you can 
no more change the body without first 
changing your thoughts than you can make 
the water cease flowing out of the pipe 
while the faucet is open. 

Now, then, when the lady arrives in 
Colorado, she is apt to change her thought, 
that is all. She likes the air, she thinks it 
is good and is aiding her recovery; she 
hears of those who have been worse off 
than she is and now they are entirely well. 
She also meets new people, makes new 
friends and acquaintances, and becomes 
happier in many ways; she thinks of disease 
less and of health more, pines less and hopes 
more, and, of course, the faithful image, 
the body, manifests this better belief to 



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correspond with her thinking and more 
health and strength and vigor continue to 
manifest in the body, to keep pace with the 
thought. Had she changed her thought at 
home she could have produced the same 
result as she did in Colorado. 

There is one thing that is necessary for 
any one on earth to do in order to be healed 
or in order to come into the experience of 
all good, and that is to follow the advice 
of Isaiah, "Let the wicked forsake his way 
and the unrighteous man his thoughts." 
There is no other way of salvation whereby 
we can be saved from evil effects other 
than by letting go of our evil thinking, 
no way under the heavens that we may 
come into the joy of living other than by 
thinking, living, feeling good and right 
thoughts. When are you going to begin? 
Each must answer this question for him 
self. Each experiences all the good, the 
health, the joy, of which he is conscious 
and no more. 



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The great truth is that all is mental and 
that all is in and of Mind. He who has 
no understanding whatever of the power 
of right thinking has not the right concept 
of Life and is therefore subject to his own 
erring beliefs. As thought is causative, one 
needs to be free from mental misconceptions 
through the actual knowledge of the truth 
of Life. It is through the application of 
right reason, which is the Saviour, that we 
free our mind from all wrong and ignorant 
beliefs. This was the teaching of the great 
Master that sickness and disease are erring 
beliefs that can be overcome through a 
right understanding of Life, and that in 
reality Life is perfect and harmonious now 
and here. Now, if you think other than 
this you are thinking wrongly, or are 
violating the laws of right and true think- 
ing, and you will automatically experience 
that punishment that you merit. Always 
work mentally to gain a conviction that 
there are no discordant conditions in Life 



24 THE PERFECT VISION 

or Xature, that all Life is good, perfect, 
ceaselessly and changelessly harmonious 
and self -existent. It is as you continue to 
think and to reason these right thoughts 
that you will gradually gain a mental 
conviction of the perfection and the reality 
of Being and then your body will respond 
to your right and true sense and conviction. 
To some, in fact to many, the healings 
produced in metaphysics are mysterious 
and are not understood in their true light. 
I will relate a simple experience of my own 
just to show how very true it is that Mind 
or right thinking heals. One day I placed 
an iron (the kind with a handle) over the 
gas flame, preparatory to doing some little 
ironing at hand. I let the iron get intensely 
hot and then shut off the gas. Forgetting 
to place the cloth ironing-holder over the 
handle before picking up the iron, I placed 
my bare hand firmly over the hot handle. 
Immediately, the pain was so intense that 
I could scarcelv bear it; the skin became 



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white, some places rising into blisters, 
while in other places it simply dropped 
away. For just a few seconds my eyes 
seemed riveted to the hand and to the 
fearful condition that seemed so evident. 
Knowing that it would never do to con- 
tinue looking at the hand, for thought is 
causative, I at once put my hand behind 
me and called to my mind the facts of my 
perfect being. I said aloud, and with 
strong mental conviction that each word 
was an absolute fact of Life: "God (per- 
fection) is all-in-all and I am not Re- 
ceived by any evidence to the contrary," 
and I kept up this right thinking until a 
sound mental conviction was obtained by 
me and then the pain left. Using the hand 
as naturally as ever, I did the little ironing 
that I had planned to do, and later put 
that hand into hot water with not a single 
discordant feeling. There was no further 
sense of pain and the outward healing took 
place rapidly. You can see now that we 



26 THE PERFECT VISION 

really cannot afford to watch the body 
nor look upon the unnatural conditions as 
realities. Look away from the bodv into 
the Facts of Life, this causes you to think 
right and true thoughts and it is these 
right and true thoughts that heal you. 

Another time I visited a dentist to ascer- 
tain about a tooth that seemed out of order. 
He advised me that the trouble was seated 
in the jaw-bone and that he could not 
possibly rectify that condition without ex- 
tracting the tooth. I called upon another 
dentist for advice and he told me the same 
thing, adding: "I am sorry but I could 
no more heal that condition for you than 
I could grow hair on my bald head." I 
went home and thought the matter over 
carefully. I did not want to lose that 
tooth. I knew that before I could accom- 
plish anything for myself that I would 
have to kill the fear I had, the fear that the 
trouble would lead to grave consequences 
as the dentists had pointed out. After 



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several hours of reading and meditation I 
arrived at this conclusion: According to 
the science of Being there is only perfection 
in Life; no laws of dentists interfere with 
it, and no lie about perfection ever touches 
or contaminates it. After seeing this very 
clearly so that I gained a clear mental 
conviction of this fact, I lost every vestige 
of fear and in three days of this right think- 
ing I was happy and rejoicing. I kept 
right on feeling convinced of the Truth 
that I was thinking and after two weeks 
the mouth was in a normal condition and 
all trouble with that tooth was at an end. 
So, I say again, do not let appearances 
deceive you, but mentally insist that all 
Nature and Life is forever manifesting 
Itself in harmony and in perfection. The 
moment you know a thing is true, that 
moment has begun the visible unfoldment 
and embodiment of that thing for you, for 
there is nothing either good or bad but 
thinking makes it so. 



28 THE PERFECT VISION 

Friend, if you act, move, live, feel, 
understand, sing, talk, hear, see, how can 
you be a mere image or a shadow? An 
image cannot think, cannot feel, cannot 
understand. You are therefore not a 
shadow nor are you merely a reflection. 
You are a conscious, living, active being. 
It is your body that is the image, the shadow, 
the reflection. The mind is the power, 
the actor, the manifestor, the thinker; the 
body is the creation, the manifestation, the 
external or objective of Mind's thoughts or 
convictions. 

The body is that reflection which has no 
life, truth nor intelligence of its own but 
expresses the convictions of the mentality's 
thinking and feeling. The body is man, 
or manifestation, and the mind is God or 
Soul. While God (Mind) is not man (body) 
yet they are one and inseparable as Cause 
and effect. 

No matter what you believe your self to 
be you can be nothing but what you 



THE PERFECT VISION 29 

eternally are. Believing yourself to be 
other than you are you will project a false 
creation, a seeming. Yet this false creation 
is no part of you, the real you, any more 
than darkness is part of the light. All 
things are to you as you understand or 
believe them or according to your individual 
state of consciousness. A false creation is 
of course not a true creation and exists 
only so long as does the mistake in the 
individual's mentality. 

Beyond your thinking or consciousness 
of a thing or a condition this thing or con- 
dition does not exist to you. Your right 
thinking brings you into harmony with 
that which is, your wrong thinking, being 
a wrong conception of that which is eternally 
right, brings you into darkness, trouble. 
If you wish a right thing or a good condition 
do not try to make or create it as though 
you were making something new or apart 
from Life, Itself. It may appear new to 
your consciousness, but to mental Nature 



30 THE PERFECT VISION 

there are no new results as all good is 
forever and eternally inherent. Also, do 
not claim a certain good condition in the 
expectation of getting rid of some other 
discordant condition. Continue to hold 
to the mental position that there is no other 
side to Life but the one and good side. 
We do not claim that sin and sickness do 
not appear on this plane of life as a seem- 
ing. To the world ignorant of Truth they 
appear as realities, but to Mind, under- 
standing, they do not appear as realities. 

Many have a confused and mysterious 
sense of the body. Some believe that they 
have two bodies, one material and visible 
and the other invisible and spiritual. Others 
claim that they have a "mortal body," 
while there are some who believe that they 
have no body at all. Now, what is the 
right way to regard the body? Think of 
the body as mental, as spiritual and as 
good. By what right do we dare think of 



THE PERFECT VISION 31 

it otherwise and stand for students of 
Truth? It could not be that we have 
spiritual souls and material bodies. To 
think of the body as matter is to condemn 
it to dust. It is our sense of the body that 
is wrong and not the body itself. We 
should think of the body as Mind objecti- 
fied, Nature in its manifested or visible 
state. It is the objective state of Life only 
that we see, for Life in its primal state is 
invisible. The flowers, birds, animals and 
our own bodies are effects or forms of Nature. 
It was Mary Baker Eddy, who some fifty 
years ago wrote in her text book: "We 
are Spirit, Soul." . . . "You, the im- 
mortal have a perfect and a divine form." 
. . "The final understanding that we 
are Spirit must come." 

Life, of course, cannot be increased nor 
diminished for it is absolute, immutable, 
changeless, God. This mental element, 
Life or Mind, comprehends all there is or 
ever can be. In this sense creation is 



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finished, but the uiifoldment or external 
expression of Life is constant and unin- 
terrupted. The Master teacher said: 'T 
am come that they might have life and that 
they might have it more abundantly." 
He must have meant that we enlarge or 
increase our sense of Life and as this takes 
place in the mental there will necessarily 
be an external expression to correspond. 
The mental element is one intelligence 
constantly seeking and finding greater and 
fuller expression of Itself. 

Do not believe that "mortal mind'" is 
back of the Sower, the body. etc.. as some 
scientists teach. Hold to the truth that 
God. Mind is all there is. hence all is 
mental, and the : ~ is as spiritual and 
good and perfect as are the thoughts and 
convictions of Truth in the mentality. 

Jesus said: "Verily I say unto you 
except ye become as a little child ye shall 
not enter the kingdom of heaven."' Did 



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he mean that we must be changed back 
into little children in order to enter heaven? 
No, It would be as impossible for us to 
do this as it would be impossible for the 
butterfly to return to the caterpillar, or 
for the oak to again become the acorn. 
He meant that we are to put on or unfold 
the characteristics of the child mentality, 
which are simplicity, innocence, fearless- 
ness, confidence, faith, purity. Now, if we 
will take all the characteristics that I have 
mentioned as a model to hold before our 
consciousness constantly, we cannot help 
but find heaven within us, for these mental 
characteristics are the foundation stones 
of all true character. 

The child's mind is easily susceptible to 
the teachings of Truth. The power of the 
individual mentality of consciousness lies 
in possessing the qualities called love, 
humility, innocence, etc. It is as these 
qualities rest in our consciousness that we 
consciously possess their power. Unless 



34 THE PERFECT VISION 

you are sincere with yourself, you are 
fooling yourself. Truth cannot benefit you 
unless you are willing and glad to obey 
Its Law. 

Have faith. Faith is a live conviction. 
Faith has confidence that the heights can 
be reached. Faith tends to bring your 
mind into touch with the laws of Life so 
that you naturally or automatically think 
good, and thus receive good. Have faith 
in the infinite, perfect God, Nature; faith 
in yourself; faith in the Law. Have faith in 
Mind and understand the power of right 
thought. Remember that to change what 
we call conditions, you must first change 
your thought, for the individual creation 
(individual body) is always the image and 
likeness of the individual mentality. When 
you are able to think rightly as you aspire 
to think, then will you experience your 
fondest desire. 

You can succeed as well as can any one 
else. The ability to succeed is a natural 



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quality inherent in every mentality. All 
mind is the same substance, for God, Life, 
is no respecter of mentalities. Faith gives 
you the power to act as you wish to act. 
Real faith is measurelessly calm, strong, 
serene. Real faith is not blind faith. 
Blind faith is faith placed in external 
things, and this is a detriment. Real faith 
is faith placed in internal things (right 
thoughts) and this faith leads to conscious 
understanding of Life which is real salvation. 
We are greater far than we at present know. 
If you wish to be well and stay well do 
not talk sickness nor allow it to be unduly 
talked to you. Keep your whole attention 
upon health and Nature's harmony. To 
take the attitude "I am perfectly well" is 
the shortest cut to the attainment of perfect 
health. Refuse to consider yourself other 
than this. God, Life, is changeless, there- 
fore, since you are one with the whole 
mental element, you, too, are changeless 
Substance. If you can know and feel this 



36 THE PERFECT VISION 

fact to the exclusion of all opposing beliefs, 
these seeming beliefs will melt away exactly 
the way the dew disappears in the presence 
of the sun. Your mind cannot believe two 
opposite thoughts at the same time. As 
you hold your thoughts steadfastly to the 
facts of your true nature and feel that what 
you are thinking is actually true, this will 
bring you into accord with the tune of the 
Universe which is harmony. As long as 
you make something out of a lie it stands 
to teason you are fighting the darkness 
and you cannot proceed. When an indi- 
vidual in his thinking denies the omnip- 
otence (all power), omniscience (all science), 
omnipresence (all presence) of God, good, 
he enters into that dream state called mortal, 
a belief state wherein he is not consciously 
at-one with the Father (understanding). 

Dear Seeker, don't sit and read and rave 
over the wonder of spiritual life and then 
close your books and act like a heathen. 
Don't sit and talk about health and then 



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37 



get up and act like a sick man. In as much 
as in you lies, act out your own good thoughts, 
otherwise they are like "sounding brass." 
Try each day to live more fully, more 
spontaneously, more abundantly. Health 
is Life in its natural state of manifestation. 
Have more faith in health than in sickness, 
more faith in good than in evil. Why, 
Infinite, Loving Mind is constantly un- 
folding Itself in us and through us at all 
times when we are loving or thinking good. 
All that is required of us is that we let this 
perfect Mind and its thoughts be in us, 
and this we do by thinking in unity and 
in harmony with it, letting go all reverse 
thoughts. Gratitude, love, joy, praise, 
strengthen our faith in good (God) and 
bring us into a closer at-one-ment with our 
perfect Nature, for you can only come 
into relationship with the perfect mental 
element in a mental way. 

As long as you think of yourself as sick 
and act like a sick person you will continue 



38 THE PERFECT VISION 

to show forth this condition called sickness. 
If you wish to be well you must think and 
act and feel, so far as in you lies, like a well 
person. Perfect Intelligence does not think 
one way and act another. Sever all mental 
connection with disease and suffering and 
begin today to enter into your birthright, 
your inheritance of natural harmony. 

That which lives in us is constantly 
seeking to express more and more of Itself. 
Within yourself is the Power to bring forth 
all your right desires. After you plant a seed 
it needs cultivation, water and care. Some 
seeds (thoughts) grow in the ground (men- 
tality) of certain individuals more quickly 
than in others; it depends upon the 
nature, desire, feeling, action, etc., in that 
particular mentality. But in divine think- 
ing you cannot admit error, disease, sin, 
sickness as true in one thought and then 
turn around and realize God, heaven and 
perfection in another thought, for they 
cannot coincide or co-mingle; they are 



THE PERFECT VISION 39 

opposites, one the lie, the other the reality 
of Being. True metaphysics teaches that 
to make disease a reality and then try to 
get rid of it is mental quackery. 

Endeavor always to think from the stand- 
point of mental perfection. It is not that 
we are actually sick and that we want to 
be made over into health, nor is it that our 
body is out of order and we want by think- 
ing certain thoughts to put it into order 
again. If sickness presents itself to us we 
are not to try and make it go away as if 
it were something outside ourself, nor are 
we to try and heal the body as though the 
cause were there. The erring misconcep- 
tions which we have accepted and which are 
responsible for the wrong acting and feeling 
that we are manifesting, must be uncovered 
and cast from our consciousness, for just 
so long as we think sick or wicked thoughts 
and act out these thoughts just so long do 
they bring us their punishment. He who 
is not ready to part with sinful thought and 



40 THE PERFECT VISION 

action and become a better individual is not 
yet ready to experience harmony. Many are 
they who travel from this one to that one 
for healing when they are not yet willing 
to give up sinful beliefs and actions, to 
love fully and freely, to forgive and forget; 
hence, they continue to manifest in the 
body disease and suffering as the direct 
result of erring thinking and doing. 

Get understanding. Refuse to think 
wrong thoughts; refuse to do wrong deeds. 
Evil is negation because it is the absence 
of the Truth. The only reason that we 
must consider evil at all is because we have 
all been educated to believe in evil as real, 
and because all around us is what is called 
the evidences of evil's reality. Some meta- 
physical teachers declare that it is not 
necessary for us to pay any attention what- 
soever to so-called evil conditions which 
we are manifesting, but not so the founder 
of Christian Science, who said: "To heal 



THE PERFECT VISION 41 

by argument, find the type of the ailment, 
get its name and array your mental plea 
against the physical . . . conform the 
argument so as to destroy the evidence of 
the disease." 

We find that in mathematics, music or 
in any other science, that we can correct a 
mistake already made more quickly if we 
know what the error is that needs correc- 
tion, and this is also true in metaphysics. 
We need to point out to humanity that sin, 
sickness, death, are the results of false 
teaching, false belief, false thinking, wrong 
living: because, unlike the science of num- 
bers wherein there is no universal or 
general thought or belief that 2 and 2 are 
5, and wherein there are no schools that 
teach mathematics erroneously; contrari- 
wise, the general, universal belief about 
Life is, that it can be well and sick; happy 
and sad; alive and dead; about the body is, 
that it can be healthy and diseased; that 
the mind can be sane and insane; that 



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accidents as well as harmonies transpire 
in this universe of infinite good. These 
wrong beliefs are taught as true fads in the 
school of so-called learning and religion, 
this is why we must be concerned with them, 
so as to expose them, denounce them, 
show them to be not the truth of existence. 
"Awake thou that sleepest." When a 
child states that the sun is moving and 
believes it. it seems true to him because he 
is ignorant of the fact that it is the earth 
that is revolving. When vou sav that vou 

k_ c c C 

are sick and believe it. it seems true to 
vou because vou are ignorant of the eternal 
fact that Life is a pure mental Substance 
which cannot be contaminated. But it 
is quite impossible for anyone to receive 
or partake of his full inheritance as spiritual 
and perfect until he claims it as his divine 
birthright. Until we come into conscious 
mental recognition of our oneness with 
perfect Life. God. little do we know about 
the joys and harmonies of Being. It is 



THE PERFECT VISION 43 

true that 2 and 3 are 5 in numbers whether 
we are thinking this or anyone else is 
thinking this or not; already, even before 
we think that they are 5 the sum of 2 and 3 
is eternally 5 in the science of numbers, but 
not until we accept this fact intelligently 
are we conscious of it, or can it benefit 
us. So, always and forever we are estab- 
lished in the science of Being as perfect, 
indestructible Life, immutable, immortal, 
but not until we claim this and recognize 
it for ourselves as true are we conscious of it, 
or does it become real to us. In other 
w T ords we do not manifest or experience 
what we actually are, but we manifest 
that which we think or believe we are, 
while on this plane. 

Be brave therefore, and refuse to accept 
evil as an actuality. Do not think it, talk 
it, act it. When you see the picture of 
sickness, sorrow, sin exhibited before you, 
it is merely the result or exhibition of the 
erroneous sense in the mentality of that 



44 THE PERFECT VISION 

individual. You can look at the dirt upon 
a child's face and not be misled into believ- 
ing that the dirt is part of the child's face, 
or that the face is injured or harmed, and 
you can separate at once in your mind the 
dirt and the face and know that nothing 
at all has happened to the face. So with 
that individual that appears blind, crippled, 
sinful. Blindness, disease, sin are no more 
a part of the true consciousness or soul 
than dirt is part of the child's face. As 
dirt can be washed from the surface of the 
face, so the sense of sickness can be re- 
moved from the mentality of the individual. 
To show how possible this is I will tell 
you of a man, now living, who healed him- 
self of what is generally considered an 
incurable condition. This man was blind 
and had been born that way. One day as 
he was sitting on a bench in a park, he 
chanced to hear a conversation between two 
people. One person was saying to the other 
that there are not two creations, one 



THE PERFECT VISION 45 

Spiritual and one of dust, but that there 
is but the one real and true creation, and 
that we and all things else are actually 
perfect, even as God is perfect. This was 
all that the man heard. From that instant 
he began to think of himself as actually 
perfect. It seemed wonderful to him, and 
true. Before this he had always thought 
himself made of dust, but now, the more he 
reasoned that he was perfect because he 
was of God, the clearer it became to him, 
and the surer he was that this was the actual 
fact of Life. Immediately he began to put 
these right thoughts into operation to act 
and live a better man. 

A few days later, as he was trying to make 
his way across the street alone, he stumbled 
and fell into the gutter, but even as he did 
so he was not afraid for he still held to the 
thought that he was in reality absolutely 
perfect; and then a wonderful thing came 
to pass in his experience. As he was getting 
upon his feet, suddenly the world was 



46 THE PERFECT VISION 

visible to him, he saw for the first time in 
his life and his sense was clear and natural. 
So dear friend, you who are seeking to 
experience health, think of this man and 
take new heart and fresh hope and make 
more earnest endeavor. God (right think- 
ing) is no respecter of persons (mentalities). 
What one can do, all can do. 

When Jesus was only twelve years old 
he said that he was about his Father's 
business. If each one of us would start 
in doing this business, which is to reason 
and understand the facts of Life and take 
into our consciousness no sense of sin, 
sickness, or error, nothing that is unlike 
good, what a great change would take place 
with us all. Then, we would not be tearing 
down other people's business, lamenting 
their behavior, criticizing their doings, for 
each of us would be in business with Good, 
harmony, and as we could not possibly use 
sin, sickness, fear, in this business of our 



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Father (perfect understanding), we would 
not, of course, have anything to do with 
these. 

Suppose that you were a man who 
handled only the finest and best grades of 
silk in your business, and it was your duty 
to pass judgment upon the various grades 
that were brought to you for inspection. 
Having already established a standard for 
the silk you would necessarily cast aside 
all materials that did not come up to your 
standard, would you not? Well, this is 
fine business for us to pattern after with 
our thoughts. We must not have grades 
of ill-assorted lots in our mentality, part 
of the day thinking health, part of the day 
believing in sickness; holding to ourselves as 
Life individualized for a few moments, and 
a good share of the time wondering, doubt- 
ing, fearing, complaining. We must watch 
our thoughts continually, passing judgment 
upon the wrong thoughts that seek ad- 
mittance and accepting none but the best 



48 THE PERFECT VISION 

and purest thoughts, those that are founded 
upon the law of Nature, God. 

If you will take this business today into 
your home, into the street car, into your 
office, you cannot help but succeed. I will 
tell you of a demonstration in a business 
way that came about after following these 
right thoughts or entering into this business 
of the Father. An individual went to a 
healer and said: "On the opposite side of 
the street from my store is a big depart- 
ment store, and my little store does not 
seem to cope with it. Their prices are 
lower than I can afford to make my prices, 
and people won't come into my store and 
buy what I have, and I therefore cannot 
pay my rent and I am about to fail." 
Can you see that these thoughts that she 
was taking into her business were not the 
right thoughts and that she was acting 
contrary to the very law that she should 
have put into operation? The healer said 
to her: "Have you anything pretty in 



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49 



your store?" She quickly answered, "Oh, 
yes/' and he said: "Love it. Go back 
into your store and see all as the handiwork 
of God, Mind. Know that Mind's ideas 
are ceaselessly in use, some one always 
wants them, always is using them. Not 
one but many need and appreciate the 
beautiful ideas of clothes, etc., that you 
carry in your store and are taking them 
now. Make this your mental vision." 

In a short time the lady returned to the 
healer telling him that she had followed his 
advice and that now she had three clerks, 
whereas she had formerly had only one. 
She said that now when she took up a 
waist it was to notice the tiny eyelets, the 
many stitches, to know that Mind did it, 
for there is nothing but Mind, and that 
all good ideas are forever in demand in the 
realm of right thinking. 

Let us all join in this business of our 
Father, — the business of right thinking. 
If you will go deep into this business you 



50 THE PERFECT VISION 

will find that it will solve all the problems 
in your house; in your community; in the 
nation; in the world. If you will not think 
falsities, misrepresentations, lies, deceits, 
but instead will think thoughts of love, of 
unity, of service, you will have established 
the Law, and back of the Law is the power 
that operates it. Seek ye first the kingdom 
of heaven, — the kingdom of understanding, 
the kingdom of right thinking and right 
living. Many are they who procrastinate 
their deliverance by working at the wrong 
end of the problem. The construction of 
any work must begin on a foundation. 
In order that the structure be permanent 
it requires that the foundation be inde- 
structible, changeless, immovable. 

The darkest hour always precedes the 
dawn, and the greatest storm has its 
end, so should you ever be placed in the 
seething midst of either, rejoice to know 
that all that is without God, true thinking, 
comes to naught. Think about courage 



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51 



and be courageous; think about protection 
for there is no other power than good, and 
it is this right and true thought that is 
your protection. Think: It is because I 
live, move, and have my being in the 
infinite, omnipotent and omnipresent con- 
sciousness of good, of perfect and harmon- 
ious Life wherein and whereout all is 
harmony and perfection that I need have 
no fear. Guard your thinking so that dis- 
couragement, doubt, anxiety, impatience, 
have no place in your mentality. 

Expect. Expect today to feel good; 
expect to walk, run, leap, today; expect to 
hear perfectly, see perfectly, today; expect 
the floodtides of strength, joy, activity, 
peace, harmony, wisdom, to unfold to you, 
individually, today, as flow the waters over 
the Niagara banks, — without limit. This 
is the hope that passeth understanding; 
the joy that is King; the harmony that is 
eternal; the Christ which sayeth always; 
Be of good cheer, I am with you all the way. 



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People are prone to ask these days : "Are 
you a Christian Scientist? A mental 
scientist? A new-thoughter? A believer? 
An understander? Orthodox?" Now what 
does this all mean? What would vou call 
Jesus? Naturally, the Christian Scientist 
calls Jesus a Christian Scientist; the mental 
scientist believes that he was a mental 
scientist; the various orthodox ministers 
believe that Jesus favored a certain atti- 
tude of devotion or prayer, whether it is a 
kneeling posture, a standing position, or a 
looking up position, etc. If we are asked 
todav, Are vou a Christian Scientist? we 
infer that the questioner means, Do you 
belong to the Christian Science church 
and do you attend the services and obey 
the rules and by-laws? To many, the mere 
fact that one belongs to the church and 
faithfully attends the services and obeys 
certain rules and regulations counts one a 
Christian Scientist. But, dear thinking 
friend, does it? Is this all that is necessary, 



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53 



and is this necessary? As in all matters 
we gain the ultimate and perfect verdict 
by turning to the teachings of him who 
was Master, I now ask, Was Jesus a mem- 
ber of the Christian Science church or any 
other church? Did he subscribe to any 
rules or laws? Did he authorize any one 
else to do this? Why, in those days the 
words Christian Science, mental science, 
New Thought were never uttered and by 
none of these names did Jesus classify him- 
self. Yet no one else has ever risen to the 
heights that he attained. Do we ever 
find Jesus scrambling after place and power? 
Do we find him censuring and condemning 
others who were after the kingdom of 
heaven and yet who were not seeking teach- 
ing from him? Just to the contrary. Jesus 
rebuked John for this attitude of mental 
slavery with these words: "He that is not 
against us is on our side." Mrs. Eddy 
said that Jesus was a Christian Scientist, 
yea, the best that ever lived, and still we 



54 THE PERFECT VISION 

know that he never set foot into a Christian 
Science church building, nor have his name 
on its roll of membership. 

Consciousness constantly unfolds more 
and more of its own glories, harmonies and 
truths. We should expect that Truth be 
continually better expressed or stated as 
time goes on. That which is said or written 
one day must not be accepted as final or 
the last word on Truth, inasmuch as Mind 
will continually unfold more and more 
understanding for there is no end to God 
or Mind nor to its unfoldment. Truth, in 
order to be known as Truth need not bear 
the stamp of any personality. Truth is 
its own authority whether it is uttered by 
this or by that individual. It is right and 
natural that we should be grateful and 
appreciative to every one who sheds some 
light on our path, those who bring into 
our experience greater good, greater joy 
and a fuller sense of life. But we must 
get rid of the notion that there is any 



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"authority" over us. Do not say or do or 
act in any particular way because of any 
certain one or ones "in authority." Look 
back over the records of those who have 
advanced themselves and helped humanity 
and you will note that they reasoned and 
acted independently and positively refused 
to consider any authority as ruling them 
other than the God within them, — their 
highest, purest, holiest sense of right. 
Independent thinking and acting is the 
result of intelligence and is bound to bring 
forth greater good to the individual and 
greater good for humanity. 

Now, I feel confident that you have 
broadened your vision so that you now are 
certain that you are more than a few pounds 
of clay or a few quarts of water and salt, 
or more than a few handfuls of dust; but 
do not stop here. Open your mind still 
farther. Expand your vision ! Never mind 
what kind of a religion your father or 
grandfather or neighbor or friend has. 



56 THE PERFECT VISION 

Think for yourself. Do not be afraid to 
get out of the kindergarten when you know 
you have outgrown it. Do not be afraid 
to let go unreasonable and age-long ideas 
when you can understand that they are 
without actual foundation or truth. Listen 
to the song of the robin, the whisper of 
the forest, the rush of the ocean, saying 
unto you: "There is no separate life. I 
am this one All-Life. That which you see 
and feel and understand is My One Life 
manifested." Be fearless. Live up to the 
level of this vision. 

Jesus said, "Your Father knoweth what 
things ye have need of before ye ask him." 
In other words Nature, Consciousness, can 
fulfill all our needs and all our desires. If 
we feel the need of anything the first step 
for us to take mentally is to know that 
what we need is within our power to bring 
forth. We bring forth right conditions by 
having within ourselves right and true 
thoughts. It is all a matter of becoming 



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conscious of the fact that you are, and that 
all good has been and eternally is yours in 
proportion as you become conscious of it. 
In mental Nature, all is forever perfect, 
and all good is continually being unfolded. 
Keep this vision before you, the vision of 
the perfect, the changeless, the ever un- 
folding divine good. 

You are a particle of perfect Life and 
you are sustained by this Life. As a wave 
is a state of the ocean so are you a state of 
consciousness in this infinite, all-inclusive 
Life. The bond that unites us all, yea, 
the bond that unites all plants, animals, 
the tiniest blade of grass and the greatest 
constellation is the One-Life. Let this 
thought bring great joy to you. See God, 
good, everywhere; see God, good, in every- 
thing. Let God, Mind, talk to you through 
the stars, ocean, flowers, animals, mankind. 

This is a sermon not heard from the 
pulpit. In this larger and fuller sense of 
God we have no creed, no church organiza- 



58 THE PERFECT VISION 

tion, no mental restrictions, no boundaries. 
We are as free as the air. As we stand upon 
the hill under the great blue canopy and 
listen to the rhythm of the universe, we 
can but exclaim, "Freedom!" "Progress!" 
"Unity !" What a glorious experience is this 
to feel a-kin to all life and to hear the uni- 
versal and impersonal whisperings of love, 
of joy, of unity, in this vast consciousness 
of All-God. In this mental vision of soul, all 
wrong belief drops away, all petty troubles 
fade out of sight, all fears, doubts, worries 
are swallowed up in the active realization of 
heaven and harmonv within and without. 

Now, the desire that swells up in our 
heart is the desire to aid others, to give to 
others enlightenment and help. From this 
exalted vision there is but one language, 
the language of love. V\e see Truth and 
Love as the male and female; we feel the 
everlasting arms embracing all; we are 
conscious of the One-Presence; we behold 
the New Day. 



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In this perfect vision we understand that 
there is no separation from our loved ones; 
we are all close together in the One-Life, 
which is paramount, eternal, indivisible. 
As when the light appears, the darkness 
disappears, so when the supremacy of 
Spirit, supreme and adorable Life (perfect 
understanding), shall unfold to us, the 
dream or sense of matter, evil and separa- 
tion will disappear. 



It is because I have received much en- 
lightenment upon the subject of meta- 
physics during the past few years that I 
desire to share this enlightenment with 
others who are hungry and thirsty for an 
intelligent and reasonable understanding 
of Life. I will be very glad to help any 
honest seeker who may choose to write to 
me; also I will gladly supply anyone with 
the names of such books as have contri- 
buted to my mental enlightenment. 

— The Author 



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